Hammud al-Attash

Hammud al-Attash (22 January 1977-20 November 2015) was a member of the Islamic State from Saudi Arabia.

Biography
Hammud al-Attash was born on 22 January 1977 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to a family of Sunni Muslim Arabs. Attash was educated in Islamic studies at King Fahd University in Riyadh, and he gained a master's degree in theology. During the Syrian Civil War, he headed to Syria to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), becoming a senior ISIS leader during their campaigns in northern Syria. On 20 November 2015 he was killed at Kuweires airbase in Aleppo by the Syrian Arab Army.